Flowering with Cree bulbs

JohnNeedsMeds

JohnNeedsMeds

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Awesome! Thanks! They are looking very healthy! Any advantage to the induction lamp or the LED bulbs that you have seen up to now? I cannot grow cannabis yet but I am so tempted to start testing on flowers or tomatoes! lol Please keep us posted. You are doing great work! :) :peace:
 
captainmorgan

captainmorgan

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JohnNeedsMeds said:
Awesome! Thanks! They are looking very healthy! Any advantage to the induction lamp or the LED bulbs that you have seen up to now? I cannot grow cannabis yet but I am so tempted to start testing on flowers or tomatoes! lol Please keep us posted. You are doing great work! :) :peace:
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The induction and red T5's do a great job and my friend who grows the same cut under a 1000 watt HPS says mine is superior to his. I plan on replacing it with LED tho, because of the cost of the specialty T5's and the electric savings, plus the LED's run cooler.
 
JohnNeedsMeds

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That is good news! I am glad the LED bulbs are doing so well. I was hoping for that since they are household items and will save bunches on electricity usage. Thanks CM! :smile::peace:
 
JohnNeedsMeds

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Hey CM, I was going over some of the designs I have worked up and was wondering...if you had an overhead fixture for say 12 LED bulbs that would go over one big plant, what temps. would you use, not counting UV or FR? Also, could you let me know what your overhead base is made of and what sockets you used in it please? Thanks much! :)
 
captainmorgan

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JohnNeedsMeds said:
Hey CM, I was going over some of the designs I have worked up and was wondering...if you had an overhead fixture for say 12 LED bulbs that would go over one big plant, what temps. would you use, not counting UV or FR? Also, could you let me know what your overhead base is made of and what sockets you used in it please? Thanks much! :)
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The A19 cabinet is 31" x 31" and the first run I had 16 overhead and 4 on the sides with a 36" tall LSD and got .9 grams per watt. This current run I have 12 overhead and 8 on the sides with the 46" CK and I'm hoping for 1 gram per watt. Ive got 2-3' x 3' tents with 15 gal pots and I think it's the perfect size for this light setup, the 31" cabinet is a little tight. The induction hoods are 12" round metal pizza trays with flared aluminum sides and the A 19 Cree hood is a square piece of wood with flared aluminum sides and the BR30 hood is a round particle board with no sides. This is where I get all my sockets,cords,chains and misc,they have triple and quad sockets and anything else you should need at good prices. Heat is not a issue with less than 200 watts of Cree A19's, I have 1- 4" inline fan running at 70% that cools the Cree cabinet and my 31" x 54" induction cabinet and I have a little clip fan rigged up to vent my 3' x 3' tents which I share the BR30 lights in.

http://www.mylampparts.com/
 
JohnNeedsMeds

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captainmorgan said:
The A19 cabinet is 31" x 31" and the first run I had 16 overhead and 4 on the sides with a 36" tall LSD and got .9 grams per watt. This current run I have 12 overhead and 8 on the sides with the 46" CK and I'm hoping for 1 gram per watt. Ive got 2-3' x 3' tents with 15 gal pots and I think it's the perfect size for this light setup, the 31" cabinet is a little tight. The induction hoods are 12" round metal pizza trays with flared aluminum sides and the A 19 Cree hood is a square piece of wood with flared aluminum sides and the BR30 hood is a round particle board with no sides. This is where I get all my sockets,cords,chains and misc,they have triple and quad sockets and anything else you should need at good prices. Heat is not a issue with less than 200 watts of Cree A19's, I have 1- 4" inline fan running at 70% that cools the Cree cabinet and my 31" x 54" induction cabinet and I have a little clip fan rigged up to vent my 3' x 3' tents which I share the BR30 lights in.

http://www.mylampparts.com/
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WOW! That's a lot of hardware! :shock: Thanks so much for breaking it down for me! I am heading to that site to start a shopping list. .9 per watt....holy smoke! Gonna have to start calling you CaptainGanja. lol Thanks again! :clap::peace:
 
captainmorgan

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JohnNeedsMeds said:
Awesome trichomes CM! How close is she to harvest?
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Barneys Farm says 50 to 60 days and it looks like they might be right. I was worried that it would be longer because I had the sativa pheno and thought it might be more like 60 to 70 so I hadn't really paid much attention till tonight. I'm going to continue to drop off a half hour of light each day to push her.
 
JohnNeedsMeds

JohnNeedsMeds

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captainmorgan said:
Barneys Farm says 50 to 60 days and it looks like they might be right. I was worried that it would be longer because I had the sativa pheno and thought it might be more like 60 to 70 so I hadn't really paid much attention till tonight. I'm going to continue to drop off a half hour of light each day to push her.
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wow Very close! Man I can't wait to get growing. Oh that lamp site has TONS of stuff! One stop shop almost. Thanks bunches again for that! :) I hope your grow nets you bunches of good, clean medicine! :bigjoint:
 
captainmorgan

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JohnNeedsMeds said:
wow Very close! Man I can't wait to get growing. Oh that lamp site has TONS of stuff! One stop shop almost. Thanks bunches again for that! :) I hope your grow nets you bunches of good, clean medicine! :bigjoint:
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Organic super soil with a couple teas and a couple top dresses and once a week with CaMg+,Ful-Power and Pro Tekt. Other than that it been straight ph'ed water.
 
indianajones

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those look fantastic, excellent job. im 5 weeks in to my first LED grow now and im really considering switching my whole garden over.

the 720 nm is supposed to make your plants finish faster from what i'm seeing on other sites. my buddy runs a LA con that took 70
days under hps in hydro, it finishes in 49 days under LED with the same density, clear/cloudy/amber ratios, and flavors. win/win IMO.
 
multipass

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Anyone know of any sites that sell custom fixtures similar to CM's badass new flood one?
I remember someone linking a cool one in a bulb growers thread(pet/franjan/chroni) but there was no purchase link.

Would be a little difficult to build on my own.. don't have enough tools to do the right job
 
JohnNeedsMeds

JohnNeedsMeds

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multipass said:
Anyone know of any sites that sell custom fixtures similar to CM's badass new flood one?
I remember someone linking a cool one in a bulb growers thread(pet/franjan/chroni) but there was no purchase link.

Would be a little difficult to build on my own.. don't have enough tools to do the right job
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Let me look around Multi. I am looking for one as well. :)
 
Chronikool

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multipass said:
Anyone know of any sites that sell custom fixtures similar to CM's badass new flood one?
I remember someone linking a cool one in a bulb growers thread(pet/franjan/chroni) but there was no purchase link.

Would be a little difficult to build on my own.. don't have enough tools to do the right job
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So you need the chip and the fixture yeah? Vanqled might...?

You got a solder iron and a screw driver? pretty easy to do your self... :)
 
multipass

multipass

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I don't mean the specific red nm Flood that CM got. I mean the big board with tons of fixtures for the new Cree LEDs flood bulbs. =D
 
Bumping Spheda

Bumping Spheda

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Something like this, multi?

http://www.newfrog.com/p/4-in-1-e27-base-light-lamp-bulb-socket-splitter-adapter-studio-photography-30023.html

I've only seen 2-to-1, 4-to-1, and 9-to-1 adapters, but the 9-to-1 is far too expensive. You could build a chain that's endlessly long with some 4-to-1 adapters and some socket extenders. They make E27 socket to AC power adapters, too:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-Power-110V-240v-to-E27-Bulbs-Socket-Adapter-/320526869491
One of those at the end of the chain with an extension cord will plug you into the wall and you didn't have to solder a thing.

You just need to find a way to hang all of this, or mount the socket adapters to a panel of some sort.
 
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